Question follow-through · 23809
Artificial Intelligence: Companies
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing introducing individual (a) licencing and (b) partnerships for AI companies.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 14 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 21 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing introducing individual (a) licencing and (b) partnerships for AI companies.
21 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Government’s consultation on AI and Copyright sets out its goal of strengthening right holders’ control of their material and ability to be renumerated for its use through licensing. This would help deliver a balanced copyright framework for AI, along...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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